Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs

Germany
Base: €106,000 - €127,000; bonus/equity: not speci...
Remote
Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20 million users of Grafana

Job Summary

  • Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20 million users of Grafana.
  • The Adaptive Telemetry group develops solutions to control and optimize telemetry data, ensuring only valuable data is retained.
  • The company invests heavily in developer productivity, offering access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models.

Matching Summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20 million users of Grafana.

Salary

Base: €106,000 - €127,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
  • Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost
  • Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response
  • Improve observability, automation and operational readiness
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry

Nice-to-have

  • Motivated self starter with bias towards action
  • Customer focused and passionate about creating intuitive products
  • Align stakeholders and remove blockers
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent
  • Represent engineering internally and externally

Key Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems
  • Strong systems-design instincts
  • Hands-on cloud and platform experience
  • Reliability and performance ownership
  • Excellent coding and design skills
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator

Work Rights

Not specified

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